Lesson Title – Entrepreneurship
Author - Shawn O’Brien
School - EHS
Subject/Grade Level –9-12
Length of Lesson -3-4per.
CTE Academic Integration Lesson Planner
What do I want students to learn?
CTE Standards
ACT College Readiness Standards
NBEA / MarkEd / ITEA Standards
Reading
I. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial
Opportunities
Achievement Standard: Recognize that
entrepreneurs possess unique characteristics
and evaluate the degree to which one
possesses those characteristics
Locate important details in uncomplicated passages
Make simple inferences about how details are used in
passages
Identify clear relationships between people, ideas, and so on
in uncomplicated passages
Draw generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas,
and so on in uncomplicated passages
Draw simple generalizations and conclusions using details
that support the main points of more challenging passages
English
Determine relevancy when presented with a variety of
sentence-level details
Use conjunctive adverbs or phrases to express
straightforward logical relationships (e.g., first, afterward, in
response)
Decide the most logical place to add a sentence in an essay
Add a sentence that introduces a simple
Use the word or phrase most consistent with the style and
tone of a fairly straightforward essay
Determine the clearest and most logical conjunction to link
clauses
Recognize and correct marked disturbances of sentence flow
and structure (e.g., participial phrase fragments, missing or
incorrect relative pronouns, dangling or misplaced modifiers)
Ensure that a verb agrees with its subject when there is some
text between the two
Use commas to set off simple parenthetical phrases
Delete unnecessary commas when an incorrect reading of the
sentence suggests a pause that should be punctuated (e.g.,
between verb and direct object clause
Students will Know:
Students will Do:
• (Content and Vocabulary)
• (Skills, Strategies, Processes and Literacy)
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship
Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs
vision
1. Students will participate in KWL activity in class on the
chalkboard
2. Students will take notes from readings taken from published
business magazines and website research on the computer using the
Cornell note system.
3. Students will complete a well constructed research paper with a
proper citation of at least 3 sources used.
4. Students will participate in peer editing activity..
Enduring Understandings (Big Ideas)
For example… principles, themes, generalizations or macro-concepts
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Entrepreneurship is vital to the American economy
There are common characteristics of successful entrepreneurs
Essential Questions
Guiding, driving questions which lead to enduring understandings
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2.
3.
What is entrepreneurship?
What are the risk and rewards and why would anyone try?
Who are the most successful entrepreneurs in America?
How am I going to assess student learning?
Assessments: Formative assessments and/or Summative assessments
1. Students will participate in KWL activity in class on the chalkboard
2. Students will take a personality test.
Lesson Title – Entrepreneurship
Author - Shawn O’Brien
School - EHS
Subject/Grade Level –9-12
Length of Lesson -3-4per.
3. Students will take notes from text, readings in published business magazines and websites research using the Cornell note
system covering entrepreneurship and individual entrepreneurs of their choice.
4. Students will complete a well constructed research paper with a proper citation of at least 3 sources used.
5. Students will present paper to the class.
Instructional Plan
Prerequisite Skills: Preparation
What prior knowledge, skills and understanding do the students need? How will you assess their background
knowledge and readiness?
Students will be grouped and fill out a KWL chart.
Personality test will be taken and scored.
Teacher led class discussion where the questions will be answered what is entrepreneurs and who can be one.
Instruction and Activities:
What procedure (sequence), teaching strategies, and student activities are used in this lesson? State the student
roles, teacher roles, and grouping for this lesson.
Grouping based on level ability/ ethnicity represented in each group
Start with KWL activity
Complete personality trait test and score.
Teacher led discussion explaining the results and filling in the gaps based on KWL results
Guided research and specific publications provided by librarian
Research paper on individual entrepreneur of student’s choice will be produced and peer edited.
Lesson Title – Entrepreneurship
Author - Shawn O’Brien
School - EHS
Subject/Grade Level –9-12
Length of Lesson -3-4per.
Academic Integration
What core academic topics are integrated? What terminology is common? What terminology is different?
Include specific examples to be used to introduce, teach, or review the topics.
ACT Reading and English standards will be assessed along with research techniques and strategies.
Resources
What materials and resources are needed for this lesson? Describe the learning environment where this lesson
will take place.
Text book, Group work, individual work class discussion and personality exploration. Consultation with school Librarian for reading
material